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Dragon and Goat: the Series

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DRAGON and GOAT is an all-ages funny animal comic series packed with adventure, humor and quirk. Join the two unlikely friends and their pet robotic dog Magnet, as they fall into comical escapades from seeking Pi-rat treasure to spelunking holes in Space-Time. Kid friendly and also fun for older audiences, the series 20 year history spans the current full color, full-page comic books to their early days as a serial daily comic strip that ran 5 days a week for six years.

Dragon

DRAGON Pendragon, Esq. is a walking fire ball, but he’s working on his anger issues. Despite his occasional bouts of temper, he has a big heart and an even bigger stomach with a taste for all things spicy and meaty- much to the chagrin of his vegetarian friend.

Though he sees himself as a tough cookie, he has a gooey center that melts for white dwarf hamsters. Quick to get bored, get hungry and use his fire breath, he always fails the marshmallow test, toasting them instantly. His impulsiveness and wild creativity usually is the spark that ignites his adventures with Goat who grumbles along the way.

Goat

GOAT Tenderhoof is a thinker and a tinkerer who would rather build a tin toy out of a tin can than eat it. He’s a warm-hearted intellectual with just a pinch of mad scientist. Despite his braininess, he’s insecure about all the things that he doesn’t know… like how to hold hands when you have hooves.

He can get lost in his experiments for days, but he has a penchant for Romantic poetry and bird watching that keeps him outdoors when his head isn’t buried in books and beakers. He can whip up a space-ready scooter on a weekend and breed then train an alga to do calculus, as long as Dragon stays out of his lab.

MAGNET

MAGNET is a robotic dog that Dragon found in a heap of nuts and bolt. Goat managed to put him back together but where the metal pup came from is still a mystery. He runs on a Fotonium core that somehow compresses light into a liquid state but more importantly he is Dragon and Goat’s faithful companion who is always willing to learn new tricks and help them pick up cute girls at the park.

ABOUT the CREATOR

From the mountains of East Tennessee, Adam Fotos is the artist and writer behind Dragon and Goat. Having cut his teeth making Dragon and Goat as a daily comic strip 5 days a week for 6 years in university papers, he now lords over a line of comics with over a dozen books under his imprint of Fotopia Press.

As an independent creator, he has brought his worlds to readers in the US and internationally for the past 20 years. He has been awarded two Individual Artist grants from the City of Chicago to produce his comic essay Beyond Paper Walls, a chapter of which has just been published in the University Press of Mississippi book Drawing on the Past, Vol. 2 in 2021.

After creating his graphic novel The Panopticorn and the web-comic Cloud Arcadia, he created The ChromoGnomes with scientists from the Aiden Lab Center for Genomic Architecture with Baylor University for the website DNAzoo. He has also collaborated with Chicago-based 5th House Ensemble to create a moving comic to accompany a performance of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9 that was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago and other Chicago-land venues.

At home in Chicago with his wife and daughter as a real-life Adult Boy Wizard, he is also a full-time professor of Humanities at the College of DuPage when he is not slinging ink or flying kites.

4 thoughts on “About”

  1. Hello. I was curious if there was a local way to purchase any of the Dragon and Goat books? I would rather give you 100% rather than buy on another website. I saw your booth on Sun but ended up in a hurry. -_- I am actually near College of DuPage. I don’t suppose I could come by and buy any books from you? Thanks.

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